Pride in being both barbadian and being of african descent. Let me throw out another question. In the 1970s professor Laurel Thatcher ulrich coined the phrase well behaved women seldom make history. [laughter] tell me if you agree. What rules did your women break and what rules did they follow and why . [laughter] well, for angela davis i think despite the fact that her upbringing was really one of the ways in which she was influenced and became amenable to the ideals of communism and the left, her mother being an activist, and she was also politicized in college as well, angela davis sort of coming into her own, she was born in 1944 and so she was growing up at the time of the emergence of the civil rights and black power movements. And in a lot of ways she stepped aside from some of the ideals of nationalism, the strong black identity politics, and she infused that with a sense of deep class analysis. So she was very strong in terms of the connection between to oppression and class,
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First place. She was a little afraid of them so she was terrified to see these strangers waiting to a qasr all times of the day and night. Mcnamara had sent an Oil President of the painting as a gift to her. I discovered this when i went through some unpublished correspondence and mcnamaras files which i publish for the first time in this book and other things also from that collection. She wrote i cannot have that painting here. It brings too many things to the surface. The only photograph of jack that i even keep in the house he has his back partly turned to the viewer. And then she told mcnamara its heartbreaking because just last night john kennedy junior walked up to the painting and kissed her goodnight and said goodnight daddy. She said he had been eating candy so i apologize if you plan you get the painting back there will be sugary imprints on the face where he kissed his father. So these are the stories to me, these human stories that are as much history as the story of oswal
Follow what is true and do what is right. Lord, inspire our lawmakers with a renewed trust in you and commitment to Work Together for your glory. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid mr. President . The president pro tempore the majority leader. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to calendar number 211 s. 1569, the debt limit legislation. The president pro tempore the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to calendar number 211 s. 1659 a bill to ensure the timely payment of the obligations of the u. S. Government until december 31, 2014. Mr. Reid the time until noon will be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. At noon there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture
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